Series' best result in a year — Hearthstone Masters Tour 2022 Murder at Castle Nathria overview

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Murder at Castle Nathria, the fifth Masters Tour 2022 Hearthstone tournament, came to an end on the night of August 15. More than 200 participants from all over the world competed for a share of $250K and a slot for the Masters Fall Championship 2022, which will take place at the end of October. In our new feature, Esports Charts will cover the Masters Tour 2022 Murder at Castle Nathria results and viewership statistics, and compare the event's figures to Battlegrounds Lobby Legends tournaments.

Masters Tour 2022 Murder at Castle Nathria matches were played in the usual "Conquest" format to three victories with the possibility of class bans. Each participant also was allowed to use only four pre-arranged decks for the tournament.

Japanese Shuhei “Tansoku” Omura won Murder at Castle Nathria, it was his first career title. He was outside the top 60 at Masters Tour tournaments most of the time, and his best result was 25th place at Masters Tour 2021 Stormwind. Second place went to his legendary compatriot Sato “glory” Kenta, Hearthstone World Championship 2020 champion and Hearthstone World Championship 2021 silver medallist. Tansoku defeated glory in the grand final with the score of 3:2.

As usual, viewers could get two card packs from the latest expansion for watching the Masters Tour 2022 Murder at Castle Nathria matches. To get the first one, viewers had to spend two hours on the official YouTube broadcast. The second pack of cards could be received after another two hours of watch time.

Viewership statistics

The Masters Tour 2022 Murder at Castle Nathria broadcasts accumulated 301.8K Hours Watched in total with 10.3K Average Viewers. Curiously, the event's Peak Viewers number of 14.7K was reached during the first qualifying day and not during the final stage, as it usually happens.

Moreover, the tournament's top 5 matches by this metric consisted entirely of qualifying games. The most popular match of the Masters Tour 2022 Murder at Castle Nathria was the one between Philippine player Jia vs Greek player soteg. They were the most popular players in the tournament by Average Viewers and glory was the leader by Hours Watched.

Most popular HS Masters/Lobby Legends tournaments of 2022

Masters Tour 2022 Murder at Castle Nathria was the most popular tournament of the series in 2022, beating Masters Tour 2022 Ruins of Alterac by both Peak and Average Viewers. However, three Battlegrounds Lobby Legends tournaments, a non-classical Hearthstone mode that received Blizzard support only this year, were more successful than the recent Masters. Masters Tour 2022 Murder at Castle Nathria fell more than 2.5 times behind the most popular of them, Battlegrounds Lobby Legends Raid Leaders, by all major metrics.

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Thanks to the success of Masters Tour 2022 Murder at Castle Nathria, the series has showed positive dynamics, but standard's Hearthstone's figures are still a far cry from the popular Battlegrounds mode. The main reason for this gap is the lack of Masters Tour streams on Twitch, as viewers of that platform make up the majority of the audience for Battlegrounds Lobby Legends events.